Jesse Eisenberg has shot to stardom in recent years after he has taken on a series of somewhat quirky roles that has made everyone sit up and take notice.
But he is back on the big screen this week as the story of Facebook is brought to life by director David Fincher in the form of The Social Network.
But it was in the theatre where he burst onto the scene when he starred on Broadway in a 1996 revival of Summer and Smoke. Three years later and it was TV that came calling with Get Real.
He stayed with the show for a year, it was cancelled in 2000, before going on to shoot a TV movie Lightning: Fire From The Sky.
And it wasn't long before the movies came calling as he starred in The Emperor's Club. A starring role in Roger Doger was next in 2002.
The movie was directed by Dylan Kidd and was an independent comedy that follows a teenage boy who turns to his uncle for help with meeting women.
There was a small part in M.Night Shyamalan's The Village before catching everyone's attention with The Squid And The Whale, for which he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination.
And while he landed roles in The Education of Charlie Banks and The Hunting Party it was 2009 that really was the breakthrough year for the actor.
He kicked off the year with comedy Zombieland, which saw him star alongside Woody Harrelson, which was a box office and critical hit.
Two men have found a way to survive a world overrun by zombies. Columbus is a big wuss -- but when you're afraid of being eaten by zombies, fear can keep you alive.
Tallahassee is an AK-totin', zombie-slayin' badass whose single determination is to get the last Twinkie on earth. As they join forces with Wichita and Little Rock, who have also found unique ways to survive the zombie mayhem, they will have to determine which is worse: relying on each other or succumbing to the zombies.
If you haven't seen Zombieland then it's a movie that you really should check out as director Ruben Fleischer brilliantly blends comedy with horror to make a zombie movie that can sit alongside some of the classics.
He went back to the indie movie for his next project as he starred alongside Kristen Stewart and Ryan Reynolds in Adventureland, another movie that was met well by the critics.
A comedy set in the summer of 1987 and centred around a recent college grad who takes a nowhere job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.
For his work in 2009 the actor was nominated for The Orange Rising Star Bafta, which awards breakthrough talent, but missed out to his Adventureland co-star Kristen Stewart.
It has been a quiet year for the actor with Holy Rollers and Solitary Man, both of which didn't get huge exposure, already under his belt.
But all that is about to change as he leads a cast of Justin Timberlake, Rooney Mara and Andrew Garfield with The Social Network, a movie which has already topped the U.S. box office.
Social reject and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg (Eisenberg) is a geek with a capital G! Desperate to be one of the popular kids at Harvard he sits down at his computer and invents Facebook.
A few years later, having hit the big time, he drops out of college and sits back as the money comes rolling in.
However, although he may be a high-achieving entrepreneur with millions of online friends, he finds that in the real world things are not quite so straightforward.
Mark finds his phenomenal dotcom success leads to legal problems when his best friends accuse him of stealing their idea.
The actor has already lent her voice to animation movie Rio and has completed work on 30 Minutes of Less, which also stars Danny McBride and Michael Pena.
The Social Network is released 15th October.
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